Mark 12:27

He is not the God of [the] dead, but of [the] living. *Ye* therefore greatly err.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

In Context

26But concerning the dead that they rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses, in [the section of] the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, *I* [am] the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

28And one of the scribes who had come up, and had heard them reasoning together, perceiving that he had answered them well, demanded of him, Which is [the] first commandment of all?

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Cross References

Proverbs 19:27Cease, my son, to hear the instruction which causeth to stray from the words of knowledge.

Romans 4:17(according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;

Hebrews 3:10Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and *they* have not known my ways;

Matthew Henry on Mark 12:19-28

The Question of the Sadducees. 18 Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, 19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. 21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise. 22 And the seven had her, and… Read the whole commentary →

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